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BFG 7800GTX problems

well SiSoftware Sandra shows me getting 11.73, and Asus Probe 2 shows 12.032, but then every few seconds it'll go down to 11.968. hmm it stopped now after i closed SiSoft and staying at a steady 12.032 on Asus Probe2.


edit: dang... starting jumping back and forth between 11.968 and 12.032 again...


edit2: the one that says +3.3 is at 3.264 volts. and the vcore is at 1.392. are those fine?
 
i have the same problem right now.. i believe it's overheat issue on 7800GTX BFG. i played today like almost 2 hours w/out aircon on, the game froze.. last night aircon was on and played 3 hours of CS:S and BF2 demo and it ran smooth and didnt freeze.. not even once.

i'm waiting for slincer for 7800GTX. hopefully that willl take care the prob.
 
Im sure its not an overheating problem for me. As for the voltage, I already have Everest Ultimate Edition and it always shows 11.86-12v so I really dont think its a voltage problem either.

I have always felt it was an IRQ problem but I did a fresh install of windows and got the same problem.

Still looking for the answer
 
Check said:
I have a BFG 6600gt (AGP 8x) and mine used to crash when I was playing games from time to time. The problem was definantly with heat. If my card got above 75 the computer would restart on me. Install coolbits for your card so that you can tell it's tempurature in the Nvidia disply options (there will be a thing on the side that says Tempurature settings) and just see what you are idleing at.

I solved my problem with a Zalman vf700-cu cooler and haven't had any problems since. According to the nvidia panel I am idleing at 35 right now and I haven't seen the card go about 55 since I installed the Zalman (over 20 degree drop for cheap, can't beat that)

if you have a second monitor, hook it up so you can monitor your tempurature while you are playing games and see what it gets up to.

I consider anything above 70 to be dangerous (that's 158 degrees fahrenheit!!) but that is just my humble opinion.
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ive hit 120c with my x800xtpe when gaming. i normally game about 20 hours a week.. so for 60 hours my x800xtpe was running over 200 degrees F. No crashing, no probs but i got a Arctic silencer 4 and now i top out at 70
 
fodder0 said:
someone on another forum mentioned that it might be a Hard drive problem.
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I dont think thats my problem since Im using the Raptors and they pass the test from WD.
 
I've been having a problem with my BFG 7800GTX OC where it will freeze the whole machine after booting to Windows after an extended period of being off. A reboot fixes that but in a game it will eventually lock up and report that nv4_disp has entered an infinite loop. I have worked with BFG's tech support for the past week on a resolution but they are giving up and giving me an RMA for the card.
 
I've been having some extended gaming sessions with myBFG 7800GTX's in SLI, after a few hours I'd stop and look at temps, this is through nVidia's temp monitor in advanced display settings. Main card was 61-62C, second card was 58C. I'd always noticed the main card running a little hotter than the second one, same thing with my 6800GT's. Not sure if that is a location thing with less open airflow or what but I do know the main card is supposed to be doing a bit more work. These temps are with the newest 77.77 drivers.

I was just playing WoW but at 1600x1200 with all setting maxed. (supersampling etc.)
 
Hi,

Sorry to bring this thread back again. But im having similar problems with my 7800GTX.
Every once in awhile the machine will hard lock. The sound will stop but the picture still stays on screen. The reset button is the only way out. Now this only happens in games, never in windows and my machine is on 24/7.
I have updated the video card drivers and that made no difference. And it has happened in a few different games. Race Driver 2, splinter cell chaos theory, and i think in Battlefield 2 (not 100% but definitly in the other 2)

Temps seem good, cpu is at 29c idle 35c loaded and graphics card is around 50c idle and up to 70c loaded. And the case is a Thermaltake Armour VA8000, so plenty of room and airflow.

Its getting to the point where its more annoying than anything else, its completely random and only happens once or twice a week if that. I will post an IRQ list just incase that helps and also what hardware im running below. Thanks for any help in advance.

Mobo: DFI Lan Party SLI DR
CPU: Athlon 3000+ @2.457ghz (only since 3 days ago, was stock before then and freezing has been happening for 3 weeks now) (athlon x2 4400 on order)
Heatsink: Thermalright XP90c with Artic Silver 5
Memory: 2x512gb Corsair XMS CL2 (2gb on order)
Video: Leadtek Winfast 7800GTX running 77.77 drivers, and also the ones before that. No diff.
Sound: Audigy 2 ZS
HDD: 3x200gb 1x80gb 1x120gb all WD.
Case: Thermaltake Armour VA8000SWA
PSU: Antec 550w TruePower (1 not 2.0) Want to get a new one, maybe the 680w Thermaltake
OS: Win2k SP4

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

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i fixed my problem... i uninstalled drivers and put on new Nvidia 77.77, and then I have a fan bvlowing in the side of my case and now it runs fine. So im just gonna buy another cooler for my video card since it must be a heat problem for it.
 
Yeah well I put on the 77.77's the other day and it locked up on my again last night. After no playing games on it all day (it was on however) i went to fire up Splinter Cell Chaos theory and about 5 seconds into it it locked up. Reset computer and then it played fine for 2 hours. Thats kinda why i think my issue isnt one of heat but more of software or maybe some odd hardware thing. Maybe even power.
I will try tonight when i get home with some soft of fan blowing air over the 7800 and see if that makes any difference.

Odd thing is Sisoft Sandra is showing my +12v rail to be pretty low. Possible problem?
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does Leadtek have a good customer support?

just take the side of your case off and have a fan blow in the side of teh case
 
yeah i think they do.

But i also think i "may" have solved the problem. I thought back what games were locking up and it was only Race Driver 2 and Splintercell, im certain that bf2 never locked up.
Now both of those games are Starforce3 games, so i thought maybe that was the problem , so i update starforce and was able to play SC for about 2 hours the other night. But wont know for sure if i have solved it until another week or so.
I sure hope that was fixed my problem, everything is running perfectly.
 
scratch that, locked again in Race Driver 2

Damn it. althought it seem to only happen in Starforce3 games.. so who knows WTF is going on.
 
Well my pc started to freeze again alot more, and even with the fan blowing in theside keeping things cool...

so i dont know what to do anymore... pretty annoying that I cant play games without them freezing my pc and losing everything ive done in the game...i really feel like i wasted 1400$

any possiblity it might be Norton's Anti-Virus? im thinking about reformatting and putting my copy of XP home back on, cause some ****tard put on a copy of XP pro that tons of people have used it and so I cant get support for it from Microsoft...
 
fodder0 said:
Well my pc started to freeze again alot more, and even with the fan blowing in theside keeping things cool...

so i dont know what to do anymore... pretty annoying that I cant play games without them freezing my pc and losing everything ive done in the game...i really feel like i wasted 1400$

any possiblity it might be Norton's Anti-Virus? im thinking about reformatting and putting my copy of XP home back on, cause some ****tard put on a copy of XP pro that tons of people have used it and so I cant get support for it from Microsoft...
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Put your copy of XP Home on the system (if it's legit) and get all the updates. Let us know if you see any differences with stability.
 
Make sure to check what driver version you are using for the motherboard onboard gigabit lan from marvell if that is what you are using...i had similar problems and it was the marvell lan

trust me, if it starts lagging then hard freeze, i can almost bet you it is the marvell drivers. get the ones offered on their site right now because those have been running steady for me now for 5 days on full load and gaming and downloading.... X2 :)

anyway reply back if this fixed it
 
ill have to reformat sunday prolly, ive been so busy for the past 3 weeks, not gonna have any free time really for another month to 2 months. =\ but ill try and do it sunday, thanks for getting back so fast.

if anyone who just read this and was wanting to help, i started this thread a long time ago trying to get help, so i got all my information throughout the 5 pages.
 
Kaos_Drem said:
Make sure to check what driver version you are using for the motherboard onboard gigabit lan from marvell if that is what you are using...i had similar problems and it was the marvell lan

trust me, if it starts lagging then hard freeze, i can almost bet you it is the marvell drivers. get the ones offered on their site right now because those have been running steady for me now for 5 days on full load and gaming and downloading.... X2 :)

anyway reply back if this fixed it
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Im using the marvell driver's Im having a problem with my PC shutting down completely, would they do that?
 
Mmm i dont think that is causing the problem for me as im using the Vitesse NIC on the DFI, and the marvel one is the backup NIC.

But i have update video card drivers and motherboard drivers. And its still doing it.
Odd things is i have been able to play about 6 hours total of Medal of honor Pacific Assault over the last 4 days and then when i tried yesterday at lunch time, it froze straight away. Than later that night i played for an our with no problems. Its completely random. and rather annoying.
 
fodder0:
I dont think its your nortons. Cause we are basically having the same problems, and I dont run nortons.
 
yea really annoying, i just started reading your post... lol.
yea its quite annoying tho... i wonder what it is :confused:
 
Find out what the CPU temp is. It should be posted in the BIOS. Then check the temp for the video card through Nvidia's display control panel. Keep an eye out on the CPU and GPU temperatures and let us know how hot they run (you can use SpeedFan to monitor the CPU temp). If it reboots randomly, I'd have to say it's a motherboard or power supply problem.
 
it doesnt reboot randomly, its just during games after awhile, the PC will just freeze and you'll hear the sound keep repeating, sometiems i dont notice for a second lol. But all my temps are fine since i have a fan blowing in the side, the funny thing is that i think it stalls faster without the fan though...... but it couldnt be a heat. it's never froze during 3dmark05. It usually wont stall on games that dont use much memory or have good graphics, never stalled on cs 1.6, but games with higher settings and whatnot will. I play some BF2 with medium settings on sunday, got band competition tomorrow and gotta do some other crap tonight.
 
Im pretty confident its not a temp problem either. As i have had it lockup only seconds after starting up a game from a fresh reboot. And then other times i have been playing games for hours in a warm room and then it locksup (like last night)

I have had it crash at cool temps and at hot temps. I have come out of games with my video card at 80c and my cpu at 45c and no problems.
The problem were also happening when i was using a much smaller and cramped case, with alot worse airflow. But now im in a huge case with plenty of airflow and very spacious.

Im thinking it may be HDD or my windows install. Im runing windows 2k sp4, on an older 80gb HDD which is getting on abit.
The only game that it hasnt crashed in is BF2. And i have that maxed out with 4x AA at 1600x1200 and it never faults. But then again i could just lucky.

Im waiting to get a new HDD then i will reinstall windows and move to XP and see if that makes any difference. If it continues I will scream... more

Also this problem has been happening since day of the machine being built, and since then its had a new CPU, new RAM and new PSU so i dont think its going to be any of those now is it.
 
it could be my older hard drive possibly...
i have a 40gb Western Digital, which was used in my old pc but reformatted and then we put XP pro on. then I went out and bought a 200gb Maxtor HD, and installed it to have my mp3's games and whatnot on it.
 
Yeah i have a gut feeling its the older drive thats causing it too.
I sure hope its something as simple as that.
 
Well my computer has been up for a week now. WIthout crashing.
Mind you I havnt played that many games. Maybe a few hours of MOH:pA to finish it and a couple of hours of Fable.

But still not crashed yet...not sure if i have done anything since it last crashed. But i would bet that if i tried to play a game later today it would definitly crash.

its so annoyingly random.
 
I have my system in an airconditioned room where the temp is around 60-65 and I still have those annoying random studdering and lockups. I have tested the HD over and over and have found no problems with them. I also switched RAM modules just to check that and nothing.

The only thing left to do is upgrade the PSU. Im forced to go with that PC Power and Cooling 850 SLI but that will have to wait a week till I get the rest of the $$.

Also, I did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro with only the 7800GTX and installed the other cards 1 at a time and my IRQs were set up pretty much the same way they were before I did the reinstall.



Any other ideas or am I going to have to suck it up and get a new PSU?
 
I have a very similar setup, however, i have the A8N-SLI deluxe. I had the exact same problem, but mine was due to the Nvidia Firewall. I know it sounds weird and others may have suggested this, but it could have something to do with your networking drivers. Personally, I would disable the Nvidia Firewall, and use the Marvell port from now on (left/top port). If this doesn't work, then, well, sorry.
 
I didnt even know there was a Nvidia firewall. How do I turn it off if I do have it?? And how do I know if I have it?? From what I saw online about it, they said its only on Nvidia based mobos..
 
fodder0 said:
I just played BF2 for 20 minutes and its at 57 degrees. (the video card)
The game was pretty choppy too.... when there were explosions and even just running around looking at the scenery and shit. Gah! this makes me so mad.... could it be a memory problem? Thats really the only thing I can think of unless my card overheats, i set it to notify me if it exceeds max temp. So hopefully ill find out later if its that when i play a game.
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On air that isn't too hot at all for a modern GPU, you're fine in that area.
 
jn1167:
Its not PSU mate, i used to have an Antec 550w, and i though it was PSU so i bought a Thermaltake 680w. And it made ZERO difference. Still locking up randomly.

corporate:
Weird, odd thing is I never chose to install the Nvidia firewall. So that is unlikely to be it right?
 
reformat your pc man, and resintall windows. it pretty much fixed my problems, still freezes occasionally, but it only has twice, but hasnt in like a week now with heavy game usage.
 
Yeah i should, still got to get a new HDD. Should really pull my finger out and do it :)

hehehe. So you say yours still locks up occasionally hey... thats pretty odd. Shouldnt lock up at all. But you say its much better than before.. well that is certainly a good thing.
 
Sorry to know ppl are having problems with hardware I wanted to purchase. I am not sure if its related, or how the newer boards respond to it, but have you tried disabling APIC in the BIOS, and reformating to see if that helps. That fixed most of my problems back when I had an ASUS A7N8X D mobo. As for the BF2, I havent played it, but have you played with different settings such as vsync forced on or off or let the game choose. I discovered that different games respond differently to these settings. I friend of mine had serious stuttering and generally bad performance in a NFSU2 after getting his x800xt, but after changing some of these settings, the performance was very fluid. But some other games had to use the opposite settings to get good performance. Not sure how this relates to newer nvidia cards, my tests were only on ATI cards. Just my 2 cents.

Good luck with getting it sorted out.
 
Zero-fill the fucker and then reinstall Winbloze. It's the best thing to do to rule out any software conflicts and the like. If the PC still keeps acting up, then you'll know for sure that something is definitely wrong (hardware-wise). :)
 
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